| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Clap upon clap, when skies are cloudless all?
Or, say, doth he, so soon as ever the clouds
Have come thereunder, then into the same
Descend in person, that from thence he may
Near-by decide upon the stroke of shaft?
And, lastly, why, with devastating bolt
Shakes he asunder holy shrines of gods
And his own thrones of splendour, and to-breaks
The well-wrought idols of divinities,
And robs of glory his own images
By wound of violence?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: again. Don't forget to bring them to my dressing-room to-night."
"What? . . . YOUR boots?" . . . faltered out Camusot, breathing more
freely.
"And whose should they be?" she demanded haughtily. "Were you
beginning to believe?--great stupid! Oh! and he would believe it too,"
she went on, addressing Berenice.--"I have a man's part in What's-his-
name's piece, and I have never worn a man's clothes in my life before.
The bootmaker for the theatre brought me these things to try if I
could walk in them, until a pair can be made to measure. He put them
on, but they hurt me so much that I have taken them off, and after all
I must wear them."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: were original to me in my character of a malcontent footman, and
have them brushed away like so many flies by these admirable young
men.
When I recounted this affair to the CIGARETTE, 'They must have a
curious idea of how English servants behave,' says he dryly, 'for
you treated me like a brute beast at the lock.'
I was a good deal mortified; but my temper had suffered, it is a
fact.
AT LANDRECIES
AT Landrecies the rain still fell and the wind still blew; but we
found a double-bedded room with plenty of furniture, real water-
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